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A big No from me, they butchered Williams score to have Vader land on the Super Star Destroyer, ruined the tension of Luke being rescued as well.

Ben Burtt did a new mix which was a amalgamation of previous mixes, according to the notes included with the Laserdisc.
He also added more oomph in explosions etc.

Theatrical cut of GBU coming to Blu-ray:

https://www.facebook.com/KinoLorberStudioClassics/photos/a.683404775049766.1073741828.682934655096778/1346813698708867/?type=3&theater

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1967) (50th Anniversary Edition)
Includes both Original U.S. Theatrical Cut, available for the first time in HD and the extended cut.
Disc 1:
• 4K transfer of the Original U.S. Theatrical Cut
• New Audio Commentary by Film Historian Tim Lucas
• “Trailers From Hell” with Ernest Dickerson
• Newly Restored 2.0 Mono Audio
• M.O.S. Deleted Scene of Blondie in the desert finding skeletons
• Trailers for Sergio Leone Westerns
• Italian Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
• English DTS-HD MA 5.1 Audio
• AND MORE – to be announced
Disc 2:
• 4K transfer of the Extended Cut
• Newly Restored 2.0 Mono Audio
• Audio Commentary By Acclaimed Film Historian Richard Schickel
• Audio Commentary By Noted Cultural Historian Christopher Frayling
• Leone’s West: Making Of Documentary
• The Leone Style: On Sergio Leone Featurette
• The Man Who Lost The Civil War: Civil War Documentary
• Reconstruction The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
• II Maestro: Ennio Morricone and The Good, The Bad And The Ugly Featurette
• Deleted Scenes
• Original U.S. Theatrical Trailer
• Original French Theatrical Trailer
• English DTS-HD MA 5.1 Audio
• Italian Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono

Now do the happy dance !!

The stand-alone remastered Blu-ray of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly from 2014, has the original English Mono.
The gun sounds are all original etc. It obviously downmixes for the extra scenes, but it’s original everywhere else.
Surprised not a lot of people realise.

Also the Italian Blu-ray of Giu La Testa (Duck You Sucker) has the original English Mono track as well, with the correct music in the final flashback, but has Italian Audio for the final line “What About Me?”. But is infinitely better than the censored audio on the MGM discs.

I wrote to a DVD magazine in 1999 complaining about incomplete DVDs of For a Few Dollars More. Gave up and created my own DVD in 2006. 

Now after 14 frustrating years, there is an uncut Blu-ray of For a Few Dollars More released in Germany with the original English mono track.

It has the complete beating scene including a missing shot from the Italian Blu-Ray, Indio's extended laugh and Clint's awesome longer entrance.

I'm having a drink.

Now for a decent version of The Good, The Bad and the Ugly on Blu-ray

Wonder if this means Blu-rays or future 4K releases of the original theatrical versions of the holy trilogy is more or less likely to happen.

I can only hope...

Does the animated figure on the sail barge count? 

Only Fool and Horses has loads of music replacements, most of the time trimming the scene altogether, including one of the best scenes in the series.

There is hope though as UK music licencing laws are slightly different, and was the reason The Young Ones got out completely unscathed on the more recent DVD release.

I thought it was bit meh

Same old Ricky Gervais awkward silence stuff, which has been done to death if you've watched The Office (UK) or Extras before.

Liam Neeson was very funny to be fair, and Warwick seems to pull it off quite well.

I'll probably keep watching.

Just downloaded the first disc. Excellent job, nice to see the original theme added to the beginning. The video quality is so good for the bulk of the episodes, that I forget it came from VHS. Can't wait for the rest of the discs.

Think you can say it's on tehparadox but not a direct link

Anyway cheers for that, wanted a copy for a while now, I think it's the best version of the movie.

Ben Burtt looked like Lucas's timid slave in the prequel documentaries. Just another yes man stroking George's ego.

I used to think the Burtt was a genius coming up with the Star Wars sounds in my youth.

I dunno the original ending is a kick in the gut and a good one.

You also get a sense that the press will have a field day at the end.

Currently uploading my stuff.

But here's a print advert for the Ewoks and Droids UK VHS tapes circa 1988

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/683/ewoksvideosadvert.jpg/

I've got some cbr files of the Ewoks comics, which maybe better scans than you have.

Have scans of all the Ewoks related kids storybooks as well.

And the UK Ewoks Annual from 1986 which contains some unique stories. 

These are the movies I can put on any time and enjoy in no order of preference:

Airplane

Alien / Aliens

Back to the Future I & II

Big Trouble in Little China

Blade Runner

The Blues Brothers

The Cannonball Run

Commando

Conan the Barbarian (1982)

Die Hard 1,2 & 3

Dirty Harry

Enter the Dragon

Evil Dead I & II / Army of Darkness

For a Few Dollars More / The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

Ghostbusters

Heat

Leon

Lethal Weapon 1 & 2

Manhunter

Monty Python and the Holy Grail / Life of Brian

Predator

Raider of the Lost Ark / Temple of Doom

Reservoir Dogs / Pulp Fiction / Jackie Brown / Kill Bill

Robocop

The Shining / Full Metal Jacket

Sin City

Spinal Tap

Star Wars / The Empire Strikes Back

The Terminator / T2: Judgment Day

The Thing (1982)

Time Bandits / Brazil

Total Recall

Tremors

The Usual Suspects

Where Eagles Dare

Luckily I downloaded them all before they were pulled. I'm sure they'll turn up again :-)

The only scene that deserves to be put back, is the sandstorm scene, Han and Luke barely interact in ROTJ as it is. I'd cut off Luke walking round his X-Wing though. 28 years was almost worth the wait.

I pretty much gave up on the EU after Bantam lost the licence to Del Rey and the prequel stuff came along.

Downloaded the V3 DVDs last night, and had a quick glance at different points in the movies. Very good for the most part, better than the personal upscale I did four years ago. Still some jaggies in places, but that's down to the source. Overall an excellent release, and the only Star Wars that will get played in my house. Will be watching them tonight on a 50" screen :)

I have the 4 Droids and 6 Ewoks UK VHS tapes, they are in a bad state though...

They don't have all the episodes either.

Droids is missing "Coby and the Starhunters"

Ewoks is missing "The Three Lessons" and "Prow Beaten / Baga's Rival"

Another problem is Ewoks uses the season 2 theme music for season 1.

Hi six months late.... the soundtrack on my Duck You Sucker is 99% the mono track from the non-SE R2 DVD (forget the year). I included some extra dialogue from the 5.1 track as well at the end as it syncs with the Duck You Sucker title appearing and was Leone's intention. There is also an Italian Stereo track taken from the Italian CVC DVD included as well. The cue for the final flashback is the Italian version not the English 5.1 version I believe as well.

Mine collection has 107 regular issues and:

- The 3 annuals, the 4 issue ROTJ mini-series, 14 Ewoks and 8 Droids, 2 Marvel Paperbacks (with unique stories)

- 300+ issues of the Marvel UK series, which had a few extra stories not printed in the US (including Specials and Annuals)

Let alone all the Blackthorne and Dark Horse series...

I stop getting them around 2003, so I've got almost every US comic from 1977 to 2003 :)